Efim Oks

Education:

Dr. Science, (Plasma Electronics), High Current Electronics Institute, 1994

Ph.D., (Candidate) (Plasma Physics), High Current Electronics Institute,1985

B.Sc. in Electronics (with First Class Honors), Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, 1978

Professional Appointments:

1995-present Full Professor and Head of Physics Department, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Tomsk, Russia

1991-present Leader, Plasma Sources Group (since 2001 -Plasma source department ) High Current Electronics Institute (HCEI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia

1989-present Senior Physicist, HCEI

1985-'89 Staff Scientist, HCEI

1982-'85 Graduate Student, HCEI

1978-'82 Junior Scientist, HCEI

1973-'78 Research Student, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Tomsk, Russia  

Research Interests:

(i) main field: Low temperature plasma physics, electron emission from plasma, electron and ion beam `physics, plasma cathode electron sources, ion sources, vacuum arc phenomena.

(ii) other fields: Material surface modification; ion implantation; novel applications of plasmas, electron and ion sources

(iii) current  research interest: Electron emission from plasma, emission methods of experimental investigation of vacuum arc phenomena. Multiple ionisations in vacuum arc plasmas; electron beam generation at high pressure; plasma chemistry applications of electron beams; ion implantation and thin film synthesis; ion sources for heavy ion accelerators and fusion, high current pulsed magnetron sputtering.

Publications and Conference Presentations:

author of book “Plasma cathode electron sources: physics, technique, application. 2005.

(In Russian), translated in English and published by Willey in September, 2006

Ion source book chapter about vacuum arc ion source contribution

More then 300 papers published in refereed journals (about half of these papers were published in J.Appl.Phys, Appl.Plys Letters, Rev. Sci. Instrum., IEEE Trans on Plasma Sci. and others )

about 150 non-refereed conference presentations, including about 10 Invited in International Conferences,

H-index: Web of Science -30, Scopus -31, Google Scholar -46 with over 6000 citations